Attendance Vocabulary
Truancy: In California, a student is truant if he/she is absent or tardy by more than 30 minutes without a valid excuse on 3 occasions in a school year. Habitual Truancy: A student is habitually truant if he/she is absent without a valid excuse for 5 days during a school year. Chronic Truancy: A student is chronically truant if he/she is absent without a valid excuse for at least 10% of the school year. Chronic Absence: In California, chronic absence is typically defined as being absent for any reason (excused or unexcused) for at least 10% of the school year. Thus, in a 175- or 180-day school year, a student who misses 18 days of school or more is chronically absent. Excused Absence:
Click here to complete the online absence form Tardy Policy Any student that arrives after 8:30am will be sent to the office to receive a tardy pass before entering the classroom. Students with an IDT (Inter District Transfer) Contracts A permit may be denied, revoked, or rescinded at any time by the District of Attendance for the following reasons:
Truant (3 absence marks): Initial Parent Notification Habitual Truant (5 absence marks): Notice of IDT Probation Letter Chronic Truant (10% of enrolled days): Revocation of IDTNext Steps for Students with Truant, Habitual, or Chronic AttendanceTruant (3 absence marks): Initial Parent Notification Habitual Truant (5 absence marks): Parent Notification Letter Chronic Truant (10% of enrolled days): Referral to SARTAttendance Process Visual for Residents |
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